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US 2007/0183934 A1Published application
Multiplexed, microfluidic molecular assay device and assay method
AssigneeInstitute for Systems Biology
InventorsAlan Diercks, Adrian Ozinsky, Carl Hansen, Alan Aderem
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Abstract
Microfluidic systems are disclosed, including microfluidic devices and methods, useful for simultaneously analyzing multiple analytes in each of a plurality of distinct nanoliter-volume samples.
Claims20
A microfluidic device comprising one or more sample chambers;
- wherein at least one of the one or more sample chambers comprises one or more micro-scale sensing elements;
- wherein the volume of each sample chamber is a nanoliter volume.
A method for analyzing simultaneously one or more analytes in each of one or more samples comprising:
- introducing one or more micro-scale sensing elements into each of one or more sample chambers of a microfluidic device;
- introducing one or more samples into each of said one or more sample chambers;
- wherein each sample comprises one or more analytes optionally introducing into each of said one or more sample chambers any reagents necessary to obtain a detectable signal from said one or more micro-scale sensing elements;
- detecting a signal from said one or more micro-scale sensing elements;
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- interpreting the signal to obtain the desired information about said one or more analytes;
- wherein the volume of each sample in each of said one or more sample chambers is a nanoliter volume.
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